One of the many things taken for granted when working with Drupal is that ability to have dynamic layouts. Different layouts for different pages, based on the blocks assigned to regions for the page.

Variables are set during page construction that can tell you how many columns are required. Which in combination with the page.tpl.php and your stylesheet can provide any number of layouts.

The upgrade of CSS Creator is complete. After failing with the previous attempt and having to roll back, success is good feeling.

Since the upgrade I have had a few minor issues to sort out but overall everything went pretty well. The trouble is after 4 years of posting and over 35,000 users the database is just getting too large and it will continue to grow. I may look at a way to archive old posts in the future, maybe find away to dump them in another database which would give me the freedom to move the archive database to another server if need be.

Tuesday 12th I will be giving another presentation to the Web Standards Group, here in Brisbane.

This time we are at a new venue the Brisbane City Library (map).

If you are in the area come along and join in.

The CSS Creator site has been keeping me busy. I have been adding content and developing a CSS Properties List with a little help from a couple of other CSS Forum members. It is still evolving, more content needs to be added and a few finishing touches. There are other things I need to do before I can get it finished. Still I'm happy with where it's at for now.

At CSS Creator CSS Layout Generator has just been released. You can generate layouts with a flexible center column and fixed width left and/or right columns. All columns will be the same length, the layout can be centered on the page or full width and a header and footer can be easily added. The Layout is based on a three column CSS Layout designed by
Douglas Livingstone. Next time you are building a website check it out.